When a passerby witnessed what he thought was a man escaping from Monterey County Jail in January, he grabbed his cellphone, called 911 and described what he had seen just 60 seconds earlier as he drove near the county offices: A man “in gray shorts, bald headed, like all tattooed, barefoot, no shirt, running across the street,” the caller told the 911 operator. The caller added – twice – that while he realized it sounded crazy, he thought he had just seen a man escaping from Monterey County Jail… READ MORE
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